Worry is always wrong because it paralyzes active faith in your life. When you worry, you assume responsibility for things you were never intended to handle. Jesus taught over and over again, “Do not worry.” The word worry is MERIMNEO, which means to divide the mind. Worry divides your mind between useful and hurtful thinking. Worrying does not change anything except that it draws your focus away from God and His faithfulness and His righteousness to concerns about the things of this temporal life. Worry is a choking, harmful emotion that saps your energy and elevates human strength above God’s strength and His plans for your life.

What do you worry about? Do you worry about changes in seasons of life, finances, your children, your job? Do you worry when you don’t understand or have no control over what’s happening in your life?

When we worry, we open the door to worldliness or a preoccupation with the things of this life. Even though the children of Israel watched God split open the Red Sea to deliver them from Egypt, they couldn’t believe He would provide water in the desert to meet their needs. And look at all the crazy things they did in that wilderness for 40 YEARS! How often are we like that? Hello! If He’s done it before, He’ll do it again! He promises to supply all our needs!

Worry is the exact opposite of faith. When we worry, it’s like we are suggesting that God cannot be trusted to take care of us, or to provide what we need. Worry causes fear to crowd out faith.

When we worry, we are not living in full faith. Worry can be directly linked with unbelief. Yikes!

Let’s recognize today that worry is a sin, and confess our lack of faith when we do worry. Let’s continue to walk in deliverance. Let’s look into the Word for the assurance that absolutely nothing can separate us from the love of God, who is the Great I Am. Let’s replace our anxious thoughts with thanksgiving from our hearts, trusting God as our all sufficient Father.